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If I prove that no man gave less for his
tenths than three medimni to the acre, you will admit,
I suppose, that, even supposing the produce amounted to a tenfold crop, no one paid
less than three tenths. And indeed this was begged as a favour from Apronius, that
they might be allowed to compound at three medimni an
acre. For, as four and even five were exacted from many people, and as many had not
only not a grain of corn, but not even a wisp of straw left out of all their crop
and after all their year's labour; then the cultivators of Centuripa, which are the
main body of agriculturists in the Leontini district, assembled in one place. They
sent as a delegate to Apronius, Andron of Centuripa, a man among the first of his
state for honour and nobility, (the same man whom now the city of Centuripa has sent
to this trial as a deputy and as a witness,) in order that he might plead with him
the cause of the cultivators of the soil, and beg of him not to exact of the
Centuripan cultivators more than three medimni for each
acre.
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